Yggdrasill

English

Proper noun

Yggdrasill

1. Alternative spelling of Yggdrasil

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Old Norse

Etymology

Commonly accepted as being composed yggr (“terrible”) (said to literally mean "the wet element," from Proto-Germanic *watōr) + drasill (“steed”), where “steed” refers to a hanging tree or possibly from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).

Proper noun

Yggdrasill m

1. (mythology) The world tree in Norse mythology; Yggdrasil

References

• Winterbourne, Anthony (2004): When the Norns Have Spoken: Time and Fate in Germanic Paganism